We all know about healthy habits that help relieve stress like yoga and exercise, a balanced diet, and good quality sleep. These can help keep your body and mind in better shape to bounce back from the negative effect of stress on our well-being. But sometimes stress comes on suddenly when you least expect it. […]

You’re drinking wine and feeling fine. Then, one glass turns to two or three and before you know it, you wake up groggy with a pounding headache and upset stomach. What’s worse is that the older you get, the harder it is for your body to recover from a night of drinking. While there’s no […]

Meet Belladonna. A plant with a charming name and a long, sordid history of use and abuse. In Italian, it translates to “beautiful lady” as the juice of its berries was once artfully used by Venetian women to redden cheeks and widen eyes. Its name in English — deadly nightshade — is a nod to […]

If you’ve built up your own homeopathic medicine cabinet, chances are Hepar sulphuris calcareum is one remedy you have on hand. But if you haven’t, there’s good reason to include it. Hepar sulph, as it’s commonly known, pulls double duty addressing dry coughs, as well as skin conditions like acne making it a popular choice […]

The sounds of coughing, sneezing, and sniffling are inescapable this time year. It seems everyone you encounter has a cold. And with 15 million people affected by flu already, now is a perfect time to ask Boiron medical advisor Dr. Ken Redcross, a board-certified physician in internal medicine and founder of Redcross Concierge, about what […]

If you’re ever suffered from painful gas, you may already be familiar with Lycopodium clavatum. This homeopathic medicine is of great value for digestive disorders. It can be found as one of the active ingredients in Boiron Gasalia, and it’s also available as a “blue tube” single medicine. However, the story of this ingredient starts […]